Great to see you back! I’ve been pretty much absent from FR for a while, though did check pings, and also pop in here & at least read, if not post.
Speaking of posts, I did just read your 20 & 21; now I’m picking up my jaw. You never did do things by halves: you research exhaustively; think about it, then make it work, regardless of initial disappointments. Just knowing that makes me want a copy of your book.
My current dabble is getting equipment together, ready to set up in Spring, to be ready when my package of bees arrives. Without pollination, all the seeds, fertilizer, and work just doesn’t produce food.
And, yes, I, too, miss Johnny; he was a treasure.
“...to be ready when my package of bees arrives. Without pollination, all the seeds, fertilizer, and work just doesn’t produce food.”
You will be interested in my gardening chapter about pollination, as you are correct here is no food without it.
That specific part of pollination is “Bees, Butterflies, Perennial Flower Plants to Attract Them”.
I had to learn pollination when I constructed a net room in the garden to keep out squirrels and birds. Could not put a plant in the net room that needed outside pollination - they had to produce on their own.
One has to know the science of plant production to grow food.
I cover that in the book so first time growers can learn how to grow food plants.
My first screw ups trying to grow food sent me to the science of growing - now I know it for every type plant and I wrote it in plain words in the book so people won’t screw up like I did.
You are correct about my research - if I don’t know something, I beat it to death until I know it all.
I’ve started writing another book:
“Earthly Life to Eternal Life”
Subtitle: “No One Dies, Not Even You”